Example sentences of "at [num ord] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We will stop at fourth normal form ! |
| 2 | At first Canadian settlement had been largely along the border with the United States , south of the 50th parallel , and American railway companies had taken Canadian grain to the world market . |
| 3 | It seems that David had at first great difficulty in making his way with the public , and was several times unsuccessful in his efforts after fame . |
| 4 | At first that change was gradual but it soon accelerated . |
| 5 | At first that fight was an uphill struggle . |
| 6 | The Manwarings ' family notified the police days after the murders , fearing at first that father and daughter might have been kidnapped . |
| 7 | At first all criticism of the running of the war was muted and was aimed at measures rather than men . |
| 8 | You wonder that it should seem to me at first all illusion But how natural — It is true of me … very true … that I have not a high appreciation of what passes in the world under the name of love ; & that a distrust of the thing had grown to be a habit of mind with me when I knew you first . |
| 9 | Fleury again rolled away , tugging at first one dagger , then the other . |
| 10 | Nepos at first delighted Sidonius by conferring on Ecdicius the patriciate which Anthemius had promised . |
| 11 | At first each boy rode round the tree alone . |
| 12 | A canister is recovered from the craft , the contents of which solidify into an at first small creature called an Ymir . |
| 13 | Faldo won at first extra hole . |
| 14 | Kohlberg 's stages of moral development are usually described as a progression from lower to higher — itself an inbuilt and at first unrecognised value-judgement . |
| 15 | At first this procedure evoked a strong reaction from faculty heads who perceived the dangers of over-personalised accounts . |
| 16 | At first this support was for a cautious continuation of the patching of the existing system . |
| 17 | At first this way to immortality was essentially a royal prerogative , but eventually similar rites were thought to confer immortality on anyone who could afford to imitate them . |
| 18 | Once he had got the idea of killing her ( and at first this fantasy did not seem very different from the reveries in which he wept by her open grave , comforted by young , fashionably dressed women ) it took some time to appreciate that this scenario was of quite a different type from the others . |
| 19 | At first this premise may seem difficult to accept , but as he maps the argument it becomes more and more plausible . |
| 20 | It is this aspect of the craft that I want to look at first this month . |
| 21 | At first this strategy produced disappointing results , as the French authorities in North Africa , Indochina , and Syria rallied to Vichy . |
| 22 | At first this bus route ran a few yards further than the trolleybuses , which had run round the Fair Green , and terminated on a small patch of prepared ground alongside the pond at the beginning of Mitcham Common . |
| 23 | And at first this beast had made a low girning , growling sound , but now he hushed his threatening , and waved his tail slowly , and the little grey man said , ‘ Otto is of the opinion that you are honest . |
| 24 | You come to us at First National Bank for a loan . |
| 25 | At first most traffic was localised , for example , between coal mine and village wharf ; as more canals were built and became inter-connected boats travelled further afield and carried a greater variety of goods . |
| 26 | It was his first visit to Nijmegen and , although he had got his CMT 3 qualification , he had spent most of his two months at 3rd Armoured Field Ambulance checking equipment , putting up tents and doing guard duties . |
| 27 | In 323–4 civil war ended with the elimination of Licinius , and Constantine was at last sole ruler . |
| 28 | At last lower panel taking shape , he wrote . |
| 29 | After a while ... the adhesion of each wine with its own name becomes more and more inveterate , and at last each flavour suggests instantly and certainly its own name and nothing else . |
| 30 | At last one day Martin said to Mihal , " Why do n't we get rid of the old man ? |